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" ... Divided politics and divided platforms continue to create confusion around policies that are in the public’s best interest. Or are they? Does censorship protect or misinform? Are social media companies influenced by political considerations - hiding under an appearance of impartiality that might be harmful or fatal if swallowed? Can people make up their own minds and understand that just because someone says something doesn’t make it true? Does the American public view Twitter and Facebook and other social platforms as a media outlet, an arbiter of truth, or biased propaganda machines? Like some stores and police stations in Minneapolis, the debate blazes on. Meanwhile, protesters (at home as well as in the streets) seek a consistent public policy that goes beyond online platforms. In an America outraged over the cruel death of George Floyd, the flames of discontent are just beginning to burn. ... "
" ... I tell my students that the other person’s inability to prove a lie does not render the statement truthful; that when we use our intellect to trick or misinform, we’ve used our gift irresponsibly. I suggest that misleading is nothing more than a sophisticated way to lie. ... "
" ... Imagine that you were a bad actor and wanted to influence one million people by convincing them to visit your fake news site. You could buy traffic for $0.15 a click, costing you $150,000 to run your disinformation campaign. But that’s a lot of money. What if you showed ads on your fake news site and earned $0.20 for every visitor who clicked? You’d net $50,000 and be able to misinform one million people. ... "
" ... Lessons of history are often illuminating, but sometimes misinform us. For analysts of a certain age, the first anti-exporter oil embargo was 1951, when BP went to various courts after the nationalization of its Iranian holdings to seize cargoes that the country was trying to export on the grounds that its concession meant that it owned the Iranian oil. It was successful in blocking most exports and the Iranian government fell (or was pushed). ... "
" ... Well, today’s college kids have YouTube to misinform them. Opinions-as-facts are spewing out of the online pipeline every single day, rendering Moore’s movies irrelevant. Fahrenheit 11/9 feels dated, the punchlines already precedented months ago by the news and social media. ... "